Ruined Quotes

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

Sometimes you like to keep stuff bottled up, but that is not the best policy.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.